Munna pill for pay panel boss

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B.N. Srikrishna, who headed the Sixth Pay Commission, has been flooded with get-well-soon cards. No, he is not ill, the retired Supreme Court judge is only getting a taste of Munnabhai’s medicine.

The “well-wishers” are income-tax officials unhappy with their proposed pay packages.

Srikrishna, who lives in Mumbai, has decided to go on a two-month holiday to avoid being bombarded by the postcards.

Nearly 50,000 tax employees plan to send a lakh get-well-soon cards, like in Lage Raho Munnabhai.

But Srikrishna is not ready to give in to any Gandhigiri. He says even if the cards had come while he was heading the commission, it would not have made any impact on his decision.

True Gandhigiri, he adds, lies in working honestly instead of spending money on such a “futile exercise”...https://www.telegraphindia.com/1080511/jsp/nation/story_9255390.jsp